April 27, 2012

Mammoth High School 2009 graduate Jess Vint was not perhaps the first student in his class who might have been expected to be successful at anything. He was, by his own admission, a middling student, a middling athlete, and a middling person.

April 24, 2012

Shortly after 7 a.m. on Monday, the Eastern Sierraâ€™s phones blinked out. It left Mammoth and other Eastern Sierra customers with varying degrees of phone and Internet service or none at all.

The Mono County Sheriffâ€™s Department said phone service might be restored by Tuesday at 5 p.m., but phone service was back online much earlier than that. By Tuesday morning, limited phone and Internet access was back

April 21, 2012

By

Neil Mulholland - President and CEO, National Park Foundation

This week, every American has something to celebrate. In fact, we have 397 things to celebrateour national parks. It is National Park Week -- a time when each of us can appreciate what we all have inherited as Americans and what many consider to be our best idea.

April 21, 2012

A little-known fee that will cost most homeowners in Mono County outside of Mammoth Lakes about $150 for every “habitable dwelling” they own will be sent out this June, if a last minute appeal to the law doesn’t work.

April 20, 2012

Mammoth schools are bracing for another potential round of budget cuts that could trim as much as 10 percent of the district’s incoming revenue next January, if at least one of two ballot initiatives that would funnel money to the schools are not approved by voters this November.

April 20, 2012

The often-contentious Rock Creek project slated for the old Paradise Lodge and Restaurant property was approved this week by the Mono County Board of Supervisors, green-lighting a project that has taken the better part of a decade to finalize.